Garage of Awesome

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Established in 2010 to collect, chase, observe, race and embrace car culture in all its forms.

Garage of Awesome (GoA) started out as more of a concept over a few beers in a shed down in sleepy Adelaide, South Australia. That original idea was that anyone can work on, collect and generally appreciate cars in all forms, to build a Garage of Awesome!
Since 2010 the GoA boys have been heading to car shows, race meets, coffee meets, cruises and events all year round in Adelaide and interstate, and this site (and Facebook) is a place to bring them all together.
So whether you have a '70's Datsun that is more of a Ratsun, a Eurotrash BMW or late-model import it doesn't matter. What matters is that you are willing to turn a spanner, lend a hand, learn something new and give it a go, welcome to the Garage of Awesome!

Apparel

Automotive t-shirts, hoodies and caps

Blogs

All things automotive

Tarmac Racing

Preparing and racing in Targa and Classic events

Tuning

LS1 and onwards Delco tuning

Latest Blogs and articles

Garage of Awesome 2.0 is the relaunch of the GoA website that has been around since 2010. After various issues and a change of direction we are back on the air and look forward to bringing you quality (awesome) articles about the going on in the GoA sheds. The old articles can be found under Classic[…]

First published 2011-12-28 Being Bellett aficionados ourselves, this example did not take long to pass by our inbox, Facebook page and even SMS, within hours of hitting the site. Scant details are supplied and the 1964 year model appears to be wrong, with the Bellett GT1600 not being released until 1965 and the PR91-model, which this[…]

First published 2011-07-24 As you may have read previously, we’re all for a Mazda Bongo. They are rare, look happy and have a crazy name. Unfortunately they’re few and far between these days thanks to their penchant for rust, catching fire and people like Australian movie director George Miller. This beautiful breadvan would surely[…]

First published 2011-07-14 Our Spotted section is for cars that we’ve seen about the place; generally lurking around the mean streets of Murder City, South Australia. However, in September 2010 we took a wrong turn on our way to the McDonalds drive-thru and ended up at a Coffee and Cars meet in Irvine, California. The[…]

First Published 2011-06-27 At Garage of Awesome, we like ratted cars, but there‘s an art to it. While three cans of matt-black and some flappers may make it a bit of a ratter, the only tried and true method is to get a car then stick in somewhere for 40 years. In the weather and[…]

First published 2011-06-20 Badge engineering is the process of getting a car that already exists and re-branding it. Sometimes, with some clever styling, it can work. Nobody questioned Ford ‘s small and mid-sized Laser and Telstar range, available mainly in the Asia-Pacific region throughout the 1980s and 1990s; they were pretty much Mazdas, 323s and[…]

First published 2011-06-08 Aussie readers will know one thing about the following initials. Regardless of if they are enthusiasts of Holden or Ford, regardless of if they like imports or local cars, modern cars or classics, regardless of almost anything, they will know the initials H.S.V. and they will know, regardless of their allegiance, that[…]

First published 2011-05-30 K.A.R.R. – Knight Rider 1982 While K.I.T.T. was everybody ‘s favourite 1982 sentient robotised boy-scout Pontiac Firebird that spent its days ferrying about an extremely blow-dried David Hasselhoff from one big-haired 1980’s booty call to another, K.A.R.R. was quietly brewing up unadulterated evil. In a story closely mirrored six years later by[…]

First published 2011-05-21 We love a good hot-rod here at Garage of Awesome. We usually prefer ratter or nostalgia rods rather than super-slick street rods, but when we saw this, our brains literally crashed. This 1932 looks like standard street rod fair from the front, although colour-coded grille, cycle guards and retro-Centreline-style wheels with[…]

First published 2011-05-21 The HB Torana has long been overlooked as a genuine classic. Perhaps it is the perception that they are merely a badge-engineered HB Vauxhall Viva. Perhaps it is the less-than-enthusiastic 1.2 litre motor. Perhaps it is the fact that with each successive model after the HB, the Torana was given more and[…]